CAA Provisional Statistics Update

[Bigman]

I bet the Japanese could if they tried hard enough!! OK, obviously not all down to Stobart Air, but they cannot be far off capacity given the figures. I understand that Aer Lingus are to operate the DUB-LPL with an A320, so maybe we should by on their radar so to speak.

 

[Tarn Spotter]

Just shows the strength of a supplying a hub airport. My daughter now uses LBA -Dublin as the gateway to the states, instead of man-shannon.
My daughter in law using in the next fortnight, first time she has used this route to the states, yet another convert from manchester, hope goes well or my grandchildren contact in danger, she had never considered LBA before.

 

[Seasider]

Provisional figures out for June but many airports missing. LHR was up 13%, BHD down 7%. Hopefully full monthly figures will be out soon.

 

[jfy1999]

TheLocalYokel on the Bristol forum has often pointed out the unreliability of some CAA stats. I hope they've sorted it all out this time as the figures for Bristol were extremely inadequate once.

Has anyone at LBA had the same sort of experience?

 

[Aviador]

So far as LBA is concerned I have always found the CAA figures to be accurate.

 

[Aviador]

....when they are eventually published that is. Notably the LBA passenger figures are still missing from the CAA statistics.

 

[Tarn Spotter]

maybe Ed Balls has asked for a recount.

 

[ChurchFenton]

I was always dubious of the Aberdeen figures when Flybe and Eastern were head to head. Nov '14 was 587 passengers and Jan '15 just 391, this with thrice weekday Q400 and thrice weekday J41/ER4, plus a reduced service at weekends. It's clear the financial numbers mustn't have been good for Flybe, dropping the route again after one winter season, but numbers so low don't bear testament to what I witnessed with my own eyes, using as an example a random few services I saw disembark and board whilst waiting for flights. Maybe a dozen or so getting off from Aberdeen and then similar numbers board when later going back north. 391 for the whole month of January for FlyBe and Eastern combined would equate to little more that one LBA-ABZ passenger on each arriving and departing flight!

I wasn't overly convinced by the accuracy of the Isle of Man figures from LBA either, when that service was still running. I know it dropped to barely a daily service in its later days, but some months were recorded as less than 100 passengers combined departing/arriving for the month, or about 2 passengers per flight. Surely the plug would have been pulled much sooner if this had been happening?

 

[Seasider]

I have just checked the CAA website and notice that in addition to LBA neither DSA or HUY are included.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

CAA stats June 2015

392,563 passengers handled, up 4.9% on June 2014. Atms up 3.8%. Rolling 12-month total was 3,372,239, up 2.5% on a year ago.

 

[dmrodgers]

CAA stats June 2015

392,563 passengers handled, up 4.9% on June 2014. Atms up 3.8%. Rolling 12-month total was 3,372,239, up 2.5% on a year ago.

Just 97 passengers less than Liverpool carried for the month. More than satisfactory figures again showing the potential if the airport was developed.

 

[jfy1999]

Is this LBA's busiest year ever or has it seen a busier one?

 

[White Heather]

I contributed! I counted as 2 of them in June One out to Tenerife and one back. Good figures and there should be over 400,000 in August based on this.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Is this LBA's busiest year ever or has it seen a busier one?

Looking back at this century the CAA stats show the following annual totals (in millions of passengers) for the calendar years 2001 to 2014 in chronological order:

1.524; 1.526; 2.015; 2.368: 2.609; 2.787; 2.860; 2.860; 2.553; 2.724; 2.937; 2.969; 3.314; 3.263.

In 1996 the airport was only just over 1 mppa.

The current 12-month total is 3.372 million so it looks certain (barring some unimagined catastrophe) that 2015 will become the busiest calendar year to date, beating the previous one of 2013 when 3.314 million passengers were handled.

 

[JakeS]

Just 97 passengers less than Liverpool carried for the month. More than satisfactory figures again showing the potential if the airport was developed.

I concur!

 

[Aviador]

A great month. It's just a shame business at LBA bombs during the winter months in comparison with Liverpool (and other airports)

 

[jfy1999]

A great month. It's just a shame business at LBA bombs during the winter months in comparison with Liverpool (and other airports)

Too many sun routes compared to business routes?

 

[lbaspotter]

Too many sun routes compared to business routes?

That's been a long time problem with LBA, even worse with having operators like Jet2, Monarch Thomson, and Ryanair whom seem to be mainly sun amd beach route operators from here now-a-days.
That's also not forgetting to add in the weather and operational problems we suffer from. But that's a discussion we've had in detail in the past on this forum.

 

[Seasider]

I thought Ryanair had upped their offering this winter?

 

[Aviador]

Looking at last December figures, Liverpool handling around 80,000 more passengers during the month than Leeds Bradford. This highlights how far behind LBA is during the winter months drawing attention back to the previously mentioned reasons; poor weather; delay or diversion perception; lack of ground radar and other associated poor weather landing equipment. As LBAspotter has quite rightly mentioned, this has been discussed on here at great length.